"I can talk to daemons? Fantastic! I suppose now would be the time to give you the mission report, but I was wondering if you would be willing to stick around after and talk. I still have questions for you if you would be willing to answer them."
"I pinged the base when we arrived, picking up multiple daemon signatures and a few very large ones. I suppose one of those was probably the weapon, and another was the daemon used to keep the base aloft. When we first entered the base, we were greeted by the sight of a man who appeared to have blown off part of his head which held a daemon eye. As we proceeded further, we encountered another corpse who seemed to have cut his daemon arm off before he died. We encountered one possessed corpse, controlled by the imbued daemon, which attacked us in a frenzy. I kept it docile with a frequency while the others hacked it to pieces, literally. We passed through a smelting room with many bars of daemon metal on the floor. They were all buzzing, an effect of the weapon as I came to find out. I performed an experiment to try to determine the frequencies the metals were affected by, by jamming a metal wire into my arm. The first attempt flooded my mind with the last memories of the daemons the weapon was used on. So much anger and death. It seems the weapon infected the host, and in the process of killing them it drove any imbued daemons insane if it didn't kill them outright. My second experiment was more productive, as I jammed the wire into my forehead and saw the intelligent weapon. It shouted at me, trying to kill me. It was angry, but that anger was undirected and it lashed out at everything. It killed the workers in the facility. I got infected, but I managed to obtain the frequency. I combined it to make the modified frequency I gave you. I used it, and I think I overdid it. The last thing I heard before falling unconcious was a very loud voice saying that everything gonna be alright. I think that was the daemon keeping the base aloft. I'm not sure what happened after, as I was inside my mind talking with the daemon in my arm and leg. We dueled, I showed him a few memories, and then I woke up to find myself in a tree. I climbed down, went to save someone from a beast, climbed the remains of the base, got in the air balloon and we headed back with the weapon and possessed both neutralized. If you send a team, you might still be able to retrieve notes or plans before the beasts take it over."
"But I'd like to make a suggestion. I saw what that weapon did to daemons, and it seemed as cruel as some of the things I've heard that the Nazis do. But my modified frequency worked to neutralize a very powerful daemon and the other daemons in range. What if you base the new weapon off that frequency. Make the weapon a transmission vector that doesn't kill off the host, and amplifies the effect of that frequency to pacify all the enemy daemons hearing it. The enemy loses their daemon tech and their will to fight, the daemons aren't killed, and you get hostages to get information from."
Mission debriefing. Go slow, enunciate, get all the info conveyed. And with the suggestion, don't try to convince him to do it. Just throw it out there. Don't need no CHA rolls up in here.
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